Omen 32.S.73
Nicole Lundeen, 2021, "Šumma ālu, Omen 32.S.73", Nicla De Zorzi et al., Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, 2018-2021; accessed 10/08/2026 12:08 a.m. at tieromina.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/omens/Omen-32-S-73/tei
↓ 32.S.73 
SU 1952, 242   r. 35  [DIŠEME].ŠIDinaÉ[NA]⸢ma⸣-⸢gal⸣Š[UB.ME]Š-[n]i!ŠUB⸢É⸣
Copy Text
  • [DIŠEME].ŠIDinaÉ[NA]ma-galŠ[UB.ME]Š-[n]iŠUBÉ
  • If a City 2,p. 188
    [DIŠEME].ŠIDinaE₂[NA]ma-galŠU[B.MEŠ-n]iŠUBE₂
  • [šummaṣurā]rûinabīt[amēli]magalimqutūninadêbīti
  • [If lizar]ds often fall in a [man’s] house- abandonment of the house.
  • If a City2, p. 189
    [If] many [liz]ards fall in [a man’s] house- abandonment of the house.
PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY
  • Reconstructions come from 32.A.63. See the commentary there for If a City 2’s (189, 32.73) use of ma-gal as an adjective instead of the adverb it is. For the plural use of EME.ŠID, see 32.A.53.
  • The above omen might be an interpolation. Its placement in the middle of a sequence of omens about lizards giving birth seems misplaced. Further the same omen is placed in the Assur recension (32.A.63) after the Assur sequence of lizard giving birth.
  • The sign read as –[n]i! is drawn on the hand copy with a large vertical wedge, where one would expect two smaller ones. The sign is broken in any case.